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<p class="MsoNormal">I just read over the blog and I am not understanding how the money is being made here via “exorbitant access fees to terminate calls”. I fully understand the old way though.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can IPES providers dictate what people pay for them terminating a call from the wholesale provider? What part of the puzzle am I also missing that allows a money making scheme from inbound calls being generated by a bad actor?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I feel like the “hosting lec end office” is the same scummy LECs that were doing it in the past. They must be using the IPES as a way to avoid the local/access tandems to keep the high billing going?!?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Matt<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> VoiceOps <voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Jared Geiger<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 11, 2022 3:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> VoiceOps <voiceops@voiceops.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [VoiceOps] Arbitration or Peering?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This blog post from Transnexus highlights a filing Inteliquent placed with the FCC about an Arbitrage Scheme. <a href="https://transnexus.com/blog/2022/access-arbitrage-rules-discussion/">https://transnexus.com/blog/2022/access-arbitrage-rules-discussion/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The link is broken to the original filing so I can't read the full details.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Maybe I'm not understanding the full complaint, but Inteliquent is expecting a lot of traffic to come through them to the IPES's number ranges but they aren't getting the traffic. The "Wholesale Inbound Provider" instead is getting the
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wouldn't this just be similar to private peering between providers? I've had "10 Digit peering" service before from a vendor but that product went away a few years ago.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">~Jared<o:p></o:p></p>
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